Download or read book Personal Monsters a Compendium of Monstrosities of Personality written by Christie Shinn and published by Horatora Studios. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Monsters is a compendium of unsavory creatures that she's encountered/endured in her personal and professional life. Each monster is identifiable by certain characteristics: i.e. behavioral patterns, mating calls, and other idiotic traits and behaviors. Good humor for everyone as we've all run into "that person" or dealt with "it".

Download or read book ICC Magazine 3 written by Terance Baker and published by Sword and Labrys Productions. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the infinite universe of Independent Comics! ICC Magazine Issue #3 spotlights the amazing work of Christie Shinn, how to create comics in CGI, some stellar Artist Spotlights, and Brian Silveira pitches his surreal graphic novel series BUN! Plus comic reviews, and tips and advice for Independent Comic Publishers! Terance Baker, Bill McCormick, Pam Harrison, Winston Jordan Standard Comic Full Color Page Count: 56 ICC Magazine showcases the best and brightest stars in Independent Comics and offers tips and advice for upcoming artists from the pros. If you thought there were no inspirational material or resources for Independent Comic artists, let ICC Magazine be your guide! Independent Creators Connection is your creative nexus!

Download or read book The Monsters Know What They re Doing written by Keith Ammann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters. In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It’s easy for even an experienced DM to get bogged down in on-the-spot decision-making or to let combat devolve into a boring slugfest, with enemies running directly at the player characters and biting, bashing, and slashing away. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM’s burden by helping you understand your monsters’ abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don’t whip out their field manuals for the first time when they’re already under fire, a DM shouldn’t wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat. Easy to read and apply, The Monsters Know What They're Doing is essential reading for every DM.

Download or read book Papier M ch Monsters written by Dan Reeder and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step instructions for creating papier-mâché monstrosities and expanding the limits of your imagination, from the author of Paper Mache Dragons Celebrated monster-making master Dan Reeder is at it again—helping others to let out their inner monsters! All that’s needed are a few simple materials and a wild imagination. Reeder guarantees success if the tried-and-tested, goof-proof how-to steps in this humorous read are followed. But there’s more—he’s also giving away all of his secrets for creating ghoulish monster elements such as jaws, claws, horns, scales, webbing, tentacles, eyeballs, fingers, toes, gnarly hands and feet, and even perfect drool! Learn how to make a basic monster and you’ll be well on your way to creating more hideous creatures, beasts, dragons, and whatever else your dark side can think of! “I’m not one to argue that the world doesn’t need more monsters, be they made of papier and/or cloth mâché, as demonstrated in Dan’s entertaining new book, or flesh and blood, as demonstrated by the one standing behind you right now.” —Gary Larson, creator, Far Side “For lovers of the truly grotesque, Reeder provides detailed photo instructions for large figures constructed of clothes hangers, newspaper, and glue. Cloth skin, teeth, and slathered-on paint finish them off. The toothy dragons are particularly effective.” —School Library Journal

Download or read book MOAR Monsters Know What They re Doing written by Keith Ammann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a follow-up strategy guide with MOAR! monster tactics for Dungeon Masters playing fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. Keith Ammann’s first book based on his popular blog, The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, unpacks strategies, tactics, and motivations for creatures found in the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Now, in MOAR! Monsters Know What They’re Doing, he analyzes the likely combat behaviors of more than 100 new enemies found in Volo’s Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. Your campaign will never be the same!

Download or read book Talking about Evil written by Rina Lazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we talk about evil? How can we make sense of its presence all around us? How can we come to terms with the sad fact that our involvement in doing or enabling evil is an interminable aspect of our lives in the world? This book is an attempt to engage these questions in a new way. Written from within the complicated reality of Israel, the contributors to this book forge a collective effort to think about evil from multiple perspectives. A necessary effort, since psychoanalysis has been slow to account for the existence of evil, while philosophy and the social sciences have tended to neglect its psychological aspects. The essays collected here join to form a wide canvas on which a portrait of evil gradually emerges, from the Bible, through the enlightenment to the Holocaust; from Kant, through Freud, Klein, Bromberg and Stein to Arendt, Agamben and Bauman; using literature, history, cinema, social theory and psychoanalysis. Talking about Evil opens up a much needed space for thinking, in itself an antidote to evil. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars and students of philosophy, social theory and the humanities.

Download or read book Demon Bitch written by Christie Shinn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like your social commentary a little on the revenge side, Demon Bitch is the next comic you need in your arsenal. Short and sweet, the comic strips are short enough to be read quickly but long enough to remind you of someone you might know. Demon Bitch is a crude, insensitive, gross, foul-mouthed and utterly hilarious look at misplaced world values. - Victoria Irwin, FangirlNation.com

Download or read book Monsters and Other Childish Things written by Benjamin Baugh and published by Cubicle 7 Entertainment. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters are real.You know because you have one. He's more fun and way tougher than all the other kids' monsters. Try not to let him eat your friends. "Monsters and Other Childish Things" is a distressingly fun and funny roleplaying game about kids and the relationship-devouring horrors from beyond time and space who love them. Players take the roles of kids and the vicious monsters who are their best friends in all the world -- and the source of all kinds of otherworldly trouble. "Monsters and Other Childish Things" is perfect for new gamers young and old, and for all gamers who like a little humor with their horror and a few scares with their laughs. Players take the roles of ordinary kids whose best friends are slavering monstrosities from beyond time and space -- and that's already enough to get them in all kinds of trouble with parents, school principals, friends, the Monster Investigation Bureau, mad science teachers, wannabe wizards, you name it. Can you make it through a school day without having to explain why your monster ate the substitute teacher? We'll soon find out.

Download or read book Serial Killers Up Close and Very Personal written by Victoria Redstall and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is a glamorous model, actress, filmmaker and investigative journalist who has spent years visiting high-security prison, getting to know sadistic killers like Gary Ray Bowles and Keith Hunter Jesperson, 'The Happy Face Killer'. These hardened killers have opened up to her in a way that they would never do to psychiatrists, prosecutors and other authority figures... and have revealed terrifying chapters of their lives that might otherwise have stayed hidden forever. In this chilling book Victoria Redstall shares every detail and insight, bringing the reader up close and very personal with some of the most dangerous and disturbed serial killers that the world has ever seen. In a similar vein to bestseller Talking with Serial Killers this title will undoubtedly appeal to fans of true crime.

Download or read book Tim Burton The Monster and the Crowd written by Helena Bassil-Morozow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Burton’s films are well known for being complex and emotionally powerful. In this book, Helena Bassil-Morozow employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history, to explore the reworking of myth and fairytale in Burton’s gothic fantasy world. The book explores the idea that Burton’s lonely, rebellious ‘monstrous’ protagonists roam the earth because they are unable to fit into the normalising tendencies of society and become part of ‘the crowd’. Divided into six chapters the book considers the concept of the archetype in various settings focusing on: the child the monster the superhero the genius the maniac the monstrous society. Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd offers an entirely fresh perspective on Tim Burton’s works. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of film or Jungian psychology, as well as anyone interested in critical issues in contemporary culture. It will also be of great help to those fans of Tim Burton who have been searching for a profound academic analysis of his works.

Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

Download or read book Only a Monster written by Vanessa Len and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sweeping romance of Passenger meets the dark fantasy edge of This Savage Song in this stunning contemporary fantasy debut from Vanessa Len, where the line between monster and hero is razor thin. Don’t forget the rule. No one can know what you are. What we are. You must never tell anyone about monsters. Joan has just learned the truth: her family are monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And the cute boy at work isn’t just a boy: he’s a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to destroy her family. To save herself and her family, Joan will have to do what she fears most: embrace her own monstrousness. Because in this story…she is not the hero. Dive deep into the world of Only a Monster: hidden worlds dwell in the shadows, beautiful monsters with untold powers walk among humans, and secrets are the most powerful weapon of all.

Download or read book Monster Manual Two written by Ed Bonny and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable supplement contains information on nearly 200 new monstersfor any D&D game. It provides descriptions for a vast array of new creatures, with an emphasis on higher-level creatures to provide experienced gamers withtougher foes to overcome. (Gamebooks)

Download or read book Contemporary Novelists written by M. Hutton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent contemporary British writers, including Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. This expanded second edition has been revised and updated throughout, and now also features a new chapter on the younger "generation" of novelists born in the 1970s.

Download or read book Demon Bitch written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christie said I could write about scones, but I'll save that for later.For those of you who know me (or don't), you might be scratching your head as to why the creator of a steampunk supernatural series is writing this. (You know the graphic novel where all the men and women wear Victorian inspired clothing and are straight-laced and modest. Yup, that one.) You might think that someone who writes something like that would not appreciate Demon Bitch. Well, that's because one has nothing to do with the other. Then again, maybe it does. Like Demon Bitch, appearances can be deceiving. Where you might see offensive and problematic material, I see a clear voice. A point of view that is unapologetic and unforgiving. Demon Bitch is what women in our society aren't supposed to be: stark, raw, and truthful. - Madeleine Holly-RosingWriter/Creator of Boston Metaphysical SocietyContributions by Madeleine Holly-Rosing, Tony Tilton, Lawrence Hubbard, Mary Zorilita Bellamy, Don Nguyen, Richard Fairgray, Ray-Anthony Height, Don Walker, The Artist Rose, Eunsoo Jeong aka 'Koreangry', and Chrissy Bautista.Dedicated to the esteemed memory of John "Cheezdawg" Bowen.

Download or read book Book of Vile Darkness written by Monte Cook and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most evil and complex elements of the Dungeons & Dragons world are presented for the first time--such as moral dilemma, slavery, human sacrifice, prostitution, and other sensitive issues--to allow players to add a level of complexity to their campaigns.

Download or read book Exploring the Psychology of Interest written by Paul J. Silvia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition, development, education, aesthetics, personality, motivation, and vocations have developed intriguing ideas about what interest is and how it works. Exploring the Psychology of Interest presents an integrated picture of how interest has been studied in all the wide-ranging areas of psychology. Using modern theories of cognition and emotion as an integrative framework, Paul Silvia examines the nature of interest, what makes things interesting, the role of interest in personality, and the development of peoples idiosyncratic interests, hobbies, and avocations. His examination reveals deep similarities between seemingly different fields of psychology and illustrates the profound importance of interest, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation for understanding why people do what they do. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Exploring the Psychology of Interest will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology.